Episode 243: Embracing Your Journey | A Conversation with Whitney Call

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Religion & Spirituality, Feminism, Motherhood, Ldswomen, Spirituality, Lds, Thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, Mormonwomen, Religion, Marriage, Mormon, Faith

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Each Latter-day Saint's path looks different, a combination of unique experiences, choices, and challenges. No matter how insistent our culture may sometimes feel, no woman fits in a mold. "I think my life began with holding dissonance," explains comedian Whitney Call. "I grew up in a very faithful LDS family...but a little squidgy around the edges. We would go to church and activities every week, and we'd watch the Simpsons together on Sunday nights. We'd bear our testimonies to each other, and we used crude humor about sex." In Episode 243, Cynthia and Susan are joined by Whitney for a wide-ranging conversation about all of it—how it started, how it's going, and one thing she knows right now (or did at the time of recording). CW: pornography, sexuality

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0:00.0	Our bodies were very objectified.
0:06.1	Being on a church show that, because honestly, we were the first of our kind on BYUTV.
0:11.9	It was conference and the quilting show and scripture roundtable until we came on.
0:18.4	Like that's really what it was, you know?
0:20.5	And then they were actually starting to do, like, more entertainment.
0:24.5	And it's been through different variations, but, you know,
0:27.6	imagine being the battering ram for all of Mormon culture.
0:30.8	It was very weird.
0:35.4	Hello, I'm Susan Hinkley.
0:39.2	And I am Cynthia Winward. And this is at last she said it.
0:41.5	We are women of faith discussing complicated things.
0:44.7	And the title of today's episode is Embracing Your Journey, A Conversation with Whitney Call.
0:50.5	Hello, Whitney.
0:51.5	Hello, thanks for having me here. I'm so excited. We're so excited to have you.
0:57.9	I'm pretty sure that you might need no introduction for many of our listeners. But in case there's
1:05.4	anyone who's been living under a rock, would you mind just giving us a really brief introduction before we jump into
1:14.5	the meat of the conversation? Just something to help our listeners know a little bit more about
1:19.0	you. Yeah, yeah. So I am a writer and comedian. I worked for nine seasons as a writer and actor on Studio C, which was a sketch
1:31.2	comedy show. And yeah, I was there for six years. We started that our little comedy troupe from
1:38.7	college. We started the show at BYUut TV. And then in 2018, a bunch of us left because we wanted to make
1:45.9	more things and we started JK Studios. And so, yeah, most of the time I'm trying to actually,
1:52.6	my everyday looks very boring. I'm mostly just writing things that, that no one will see or it
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